UN: Southern Sudanese Rebels Must Leave Area -- Yahoo News/APKHARTOUM, Sudan – The U.N. expressed concern about the presence of former southern Sudanese rebels in a contested oil-rich area near the border with the north, raising fears of violence days ahead of a key court decision on the region's boundaries.
Recurrent fighting between the north and south in Abyei region has strained a 2005 peace deal that ended more than two decades of civil war in which two million people died. The region is located just north of the disputed boundary line with southern Sudan, but both sides claim it as their own.
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My Comment: There are tens of billions of dollars in oil deposits throughout this region .... and both sides want it .... but the South Sudanese forces now have the manpower and weapons to seize it.
The UN's concerns are legitimate. The UN has promised that a ruling will be issued next week on which side has jurisdiction over this oil rich land, but both sides are getting ready for war in anticipation of an unfavorable ruling.